“The Palestinian people want to be free of the occupation,” award-winning Israeli journalist Gideon Levy summed up this week. It is that simple. This latest Israeli military assault on the people of Gaza is not an isolated event, but part of a 45-year occupation of the sliver of land wedged between Israel and the Mediterranean Sea, where 1.6 million people live under a brutal Israeli blockade that denies them most of the basic necessities of Continue reading In Gaza, It’s the Occupation, Stupid→

‘Bearing it as silent observers’ These thoughts haunt me that we the Pakistanis engulfed in most precarious situation of our times may not be the resilient people but are used to resigning to atrocities and accept it as our fate. It took me to think over and over again that how this nation living on a God gifted land is being coerced to thin out and to disintegrate. I look back and see that: It was early 70s that General Augusto Pinochet in Chile came Continue reading Meri Dunya Lut Rahi thi – Aur Maen Khamosh ….→

A handful of US congressmen support creating an independent Balochistan, carved out of mostly Pakistani land. By Eddie Walsh – As published in Aljazeera Washington, DC – Over the last few months, a small faction of congressmen, minority Afghan groups, Baloch nationalists, and their supporters have laid out the framework for an alternative US policy approach for Continue reading Should the US support an independent Balochistan?→